Hispanic restaurant owner sues city of Chicago for denying him permit because he's not black
Story by Sonya Gugliara For Dailymail.Com • 19h
A Hispanic restaurant owner is claiming that the city of Chicago brazenly refused to renew his license to operate at a city-owned waterfront location because he is not black.
Robert Gomez, owner of Beat Kitchen on the Riverwalk, sued the city after he was denied the permit he had held since 2019 - despite being the most qualified applicant, the federal civil rights lawsuit alleges.
The filing claims that the city bent its criteria and sneakily reviewed and accepted a 'deficient' proposal to favor a black-owned local business, Haire’s Gulf Shrimp, as a result of Mayor Brandon Johnson's stances on racial equity.
'It's depressing,' Gomez told the Daily Mail. 'Like, how could they do this?'
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